Nintendo Shuts Down Enjoyable Fake ‘Pokemon Documentary’ YouTuber Through Copyright Strikes

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We all ought to know by now that Nintendo is extremely protecting of its IP. When it involves something having to do with Pokémon particularly, all of the extra so. While they might inform you that they’re simply defending their IP, the top result’s that a few of the largest Pokémon followers on the market that simply need to do some enjoyable issues that characterize no hurt to Nintendo get shut down by threats, attorneys, or copyright strikes.

Take the YouTube sequence known as PokeNational Geographic, as an illustration. While this YouTube sequence has been pushing out fake nature documentary movies about Pokémon for a number of years, the channel behind it simply received hit with a bunch of copyright strikes from Nintendo.

In a video posted to an alternate channel, Elious says that Nintendo of America all of a sudden issued quite a few strikes on massive batches of his movies, all within the area of 12 hours. At the time he posted the video, a complete of 20 movies had been caught up in 4 separate copyright strikes which embody the whole thing of the movies. With YouTube’s three-strikes coverage, this implies his channel is now pending deletion by YouTube and can disappear in seven days.

Elious says the strikes declare his channel is inappropriately utilizing “content used in Pokémon video games including audiovisual works, characters, and imagery.” Elious’ movies include unique 3D animation of varied Pokémon within the “wild,” with a David Attenborough–fashion narration sharing numerous info about Pokémon like Magikarp, Squirtle, Magnemite, Snom, Mew, Charizard, and extra. He has been producing these movies on this channel since way back to 2023 with out problem, and claims in his video that the one precise content material he took immediately from the video games was “tiny sprite roars” that final lower than three seconds, including that quite a few different Pokémon creators on YouTube, in addition to AI-produced channels mimicking his personal, use photographs or footage immediately from the video games with no problem.

So, why now? There’s no technique to know for certain, however Elious did just lately launch a Patreon account in order that followers might compensate them for the sequence. The common hypothesis is that when Elious tried to make any type of cash from his video sequence, that spurred Nintendo to ship the copyright strikes. And for many individuals, that may make full sense.

I don’t perceive that standpoint. Regardless of any cash altering arms, this nonetheless doesn’t characterize any risk or hurt to Nintendo or the Pokémon franchise. If something, enjoyable little fan movies like this solely propel curiosity within the product. They characterize free engagement lures for followers of Pokémon. Why on the planet is copyright putting this channel to hell a greater choice than figuring out a free or low cost licensing association with Elious in order that they will maintain producing the sequence and Nintendo can reap a few of the profit?

Or, hell, Nintendo might have tried to have a dialog with Elious, no less than.

Elious continues by saying that he isn’t opposed to only deleting all of the Pokémon movies if Nintendo of America asks, however he needs he might maintain his almost 100,000 subscribers so he can maintain making movies of different issues, as he has on the channel up to now.

“I can’t really fight this,” Elious says. “It all seems legitimate, it does seem to come from the actual, real Nintendo of America. I can’t fight this. I don’t…I don’t know what to do about it because it’ll remove everything. I’m downloading stuff, of course, I have like, all the videos myself. But I’ll never be able to post them again, and I’ll never be able to use this channel again. Almost 100,000 subscribers over three years of making these animations and it’s all going to be gone in seven days.”

It’s just too unhealthy that Nintendo would quite worship on the altar of mental property than get artistic with the way it can assist its followers. Thanks to IP maximalist thought, right here is just a bit extra enjoyable that Nintendo has flushed down the bathroom.

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